Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2234 mails)

[alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Alex Angerhofer)]

> Am Don, 02 Sep 1999 schrieben Sie:
> > Dear Ulrich,
> > 
> > sounds like a great idea. Perhaps the new settings could be incorporated in
> > the stock SuSE set-up unless they have negative security implications, in which
> > case it would also be interesting to discuss this and at least know about them.
> > 
> > Best regards, Alex.
> 
> Dear Alex,
> i changed the name of the group for pap-secrets and chap-secrets from root to
> dialout and added read and write permission for group. with this settings the
> error-messages disappeared. i think i can live with this settings even under
> aspects of security. or do you see any difficulties coming from this direction?
> 
> bye, Ulrich
> 

Hi Ulrich,

thanks for the tip. I suspected that this change would have to be made to get rid of
the error messages. As far as security goes it has the same effect as having wvdial.conf
being owned by group dialout and giving read permission to the group. Obviously, you
only want to have trusted users in group dialout, and on a home system this is not a 
big deal. What I'd really would like to know are the implications on a server, say
in a university department where people may want to have access to a modem for FAXing.
Perhaps, I should post my question to the suse security list.

Best regards, Alex.

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